Abstract:
This thesis is a proposal for a new information system that can be described as a “browsable three-dimensional projection” that associates to the image of the earth’s physical surface multidimensional layers synthetically representing flows of past events, like armed conflicts, and the paths of mobile elements, like individuals. It would permit to visually analyse the available information and to examine related sources linked to their space-time coordinates. The information graphics is based on a model in which artifacts and events of past centuries could be lined up to the coordinates of the individual(s) creating them and to the (generally agreed upon) time standards. Such elements are represented as we would portray overlapped ozone shields, each on a specific argument of human-related activities containing switchable and synthesizable datasets. The objective of this work is twofold. First, it will allow investigating how armed conflicts, as part of the more complex war-related affairs taking place in a specific area, influence the contemporary and adjoining cultural production. This is possible through the observation of the migratory courses of culture producers and of the catalogue raisonnè of their works. Second, this project aims to become a valid data based didactic tool usable by both sides of education: teaching and learning.
